9. For a criticism of the nihilism underlying the intellectualism of the 1960's and the difference in the level and quality between negative mysticism and the fallacies of the de-construction, see the relevant analysis of Raymond Abellio in his Manifeste de la nouvelle Gnose (Manifesto of the New Gnosis), p.116-132, N.R.F., Essays, Gallimard, 1989.

29. Annie Cahn, Materials for a classification of out-wordly life: Indian Renunciates and Russian Mad-for Christ, Thesis for M.A. in Ethnology, Paris X, 1983. See also The Mad-for Christ by Irina Gorainoff, Desclee de Brouwer, 1983.

30. June Mac Daniel, The Madness of Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal, University of Chicago Press, 1989, p. 243 sqq.